This morning’s Washington Post carries a column by Jackson Diehl that details the $25 million that the US Agency for International Development is giving to Egypt this year for democracy promotion. The U.S. has given Egypt the right to review and veto any of the projects. The US is funding “democracy” projects that a non-democratic government approves of. Most of the funds are going to the country’s courts which “used to throw democracy advocates in prison.” Moreover, “not a dollar is going to the independent Egyptian groups that, at great risk, are trying to advocate democratic reforms for Mubarak’s rotting autocracy.” It’s not only that the huge AID bureaucracy in Cairo chooses to ignore the fact that the courts it is funding in the name of democracy are being used to destroy Egypt’s most important…
Penis show wows
Penis show wows Los Angeles.
Posted on an internet bulletin
Posted on an internet bulletin board: Yankee Doodle went to town, Riding on his pony, Stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni So does “it” refer to the feather or the hat?
Don’t forget to catch up
Don’t forget to catch up on the Sunday talk shows you missed at Punditwatch.
USAirways awards the
USAirways awards the right for top executives to fly first class ahead of paying customers.
Laundering points through Amtrak. Need
Laundering points through Amtrak. Need to top off your United Mileage Plus account? Did you know you can transfer Continental and Midwest Express miles into United miles, 1:1? They don’t advertise it this way, but here’s how it works. Open an Amtrak Guest Rewards account. You can transfer Midwest Express miles and Continental miles into your Amtrak account. You can then transfer these Amtrak points into United miles. This all should be done in 5000 point increments. You can also transfer Continental —> Amtrak –> Midwest Express. However, you can not transfer United –> Amtrak, so you can’t turn your United miles into Continental or Midwest Express miles. Now is a good time to get rid of any Midwest Express miles you may have. Starting October 1, it will take 25% more miles for a…
A way around the new
A way around the new restrictions. USAirways, Continental, and American have all announced a change that says unused nonrefundable tickets don’t retain any value. You can make a change (while paying a $100 change fee, naturally) before you fly .. but if you don’t know what your plans will be, you lose. Here’s a workaround that will work on USAirways and Continental (but not American, because of a quirk in their rules). If your original ticket cost $500 and you decide to not to go, the rules say you’ve lost $500 — or you can make a change before your first flight leaves. Here’s what to do: find a refundable/unrestricted fare to anywhere that’s $400. Apply the full value of your restricted ticket to the new unrestricted ticket ($500 minus $100 change fee = $400).…
A new term has been
A new term has been coined for the over-intrusive “random” searches subjected to passengers about to board: Gate Rape.
Earn triple
Earn triple Alaska Airlines miles with Thrifty car rentals.
Will Wilkinson offers
Will Wilkinson offers a nice takedown of the anti-cloning arguments in the summer 2002 issue of Doublethink.
